Moving Man Online Lab

Before Tuesday's class, we were to complete an online lab called "Moving Man." On that website, there was a man at the top of the screen that you could drag along the top for twenty seconds. The whole time while the man is moving, the position, velocity, and acceleration of the man is posted. You can see exactly what everything is while you move the man. It allows you to correlate the terms position, velocity, and acceleration with the man. I do not fully understand these terms, but this experiment let me actually see what each word means and what happens to each one when the man moves. I understand these words better now by seeing firsthand the results of the moving man. I also understand that it does not take much to change the position, velocity, and acceleration. I played around with the lab a couple of times to compare the numbers and I noticed that even the slighest movement of the man causes the numbers to change dramatically. This experiment was neat to do since it allowed me to learn more about something I know very little about!